How do I love thee? Let me Count the Ways
Whenever i come home for even a short stay, my Montrealer friends ask how it is in Toronto - and the answer is always - tedious. I have great things to say about U of T and am perfectly aware that as a busy grad student holed up in her basement bachelor, i don’t get a chance to really enjoy the city as much as a should - for example, i NEED to go with Jen to an Indie Rock show. However, Montreal has many great things which, frankly, Toronto lacks.
Julie just recently wrote a very nice livejournal post listing her eight favourite things about Montreal - all of which i have to agree with. I added my take on Montreal’s architecture (which i think puts it up there with some great European cities i have visited, like Stockholm and Amsterdam) in a comment. It’s a good read that i highly recommend - although i will continue to give Toronto a chance before leaving later this summer.
The most recent ’bout of giving Toronto a chance was karaoke at Fiddler’s Green on Thursday evening. I don’t sing at karaoke - but i do sing along if someone picks a Meatloaf song like “I Would Do Anything for Love, but i won’t do that” (yes, i thought of Bryan). In honour of Sandy’s friends visiting for a week and the completion of comps for those writing them - there was some serious enjoying of ourselves going on among the history/CMS crowd. Yeah! It was the second time i have been to Fiddler’s Green and i will go again - even if they DID change the channel on the TV when the Habs vs. Flyers game was still in overtime. A Toronto faux-pas if you ask me.
Oh, and their poutine is completely edible. The gravy isn’t right and there’s this green stuff that looks way too healthy to be poutine-related (it’s parsley), but it’s edible even if it isn’t real poutine.
Poutine is not poutine if you leave the province of Quebec. There is just no comparison.
If you are in need of a hockey fix, apparently there is a bar somewhere in Toronto that shows all the Habs games. Don’t remember the name of it, I saw it in The Gazette once a couple of years ago.
Also, my pay situation is resolved… sort of. Turns out my contract has to be renewed because it ended on March 31st and my supervisor forgot to do it. So my last pay was actually for the last day of March and that was it.
Sigh.